Students count insects or specified weeds in a given area to experience how farmers decide whether or not to use pesticides.

The student will construct bee puppets and use them to act out some bee behaviors.

Students learn basic information about bees and the importance of pollination in crop production. Includes a take home Parent Page with information about the Africanized honey bee (sometimes erroneously called "killer bees.")

The student construct an insect holder and observe and classify insects.

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Students design and conduct investigations with crickets.

Students learn the anatomy of a flower and play a game in which they act out the pollination process.

Students match flowers to pollinators and construct models of flowers to demonstrate why different kinds of flowers need different kinds of pollinators

Students will learn a song about the boll weevil and use it to understand the impact agriculture has on a community and its economy.

Students read about the agricultural aviation industry and its history and answer comprehension questions. Students read about the division of land by townships and sections and use legal land descriptions to identify parcels of land in a map of a land section. Students answer math word problems related to agricultural aviation. Students conduct experiments with paper airplanes and O-Wings.

Students will construct a habitat which will allow them to observe the metamorphosis of a caterpillar into a
butterfly.

Students research, interview experts and design pollinator habitats

Students compare insect relationships according to their symbiosis class—parasitism, commensalism, mutualism.